Canada has earned a poor reputation at recent UN climate talks, winning the Fossil Award many years in a row for our inaction on climate change. Our new government, with promises of positive action and a strong team, has a chance to clear our reputation.

Only recently has it become possible to detect the effects of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions on global temperatures. However, by examining data on a regional basis, climate scientists have found indications of global warming dating to the 1940s.

Dr. David Suzuki has a concept that may indeed open closed minds to the reality of climate change. He is a Canadian writer, scientist, activist, who just received the U.S. National Wildlife Federation Award for Science on April 30th.

Tar Sands Oil from Canada is so carbon-intensive that NASA climate scientist James Hansen has said that extracting all of it would be Game Over" for the climate &#8213; and the KXL pipeline will largely determine whether or not that happens.

The New York Times has a must-read article on how and why the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "seems to be bending over backward to be scientifically conservative" in its forthcoming assessment.

As the Arctic rapidly heats up, however, there's less of a temperature difference between the equator and the poles, and the downhill slope in the atmosphere is accordingly less steep. This creates a weaker jet stream, a jet stream that meanders more or-

Large dams may be one of the single most important contributors to global warming, releasing 104 million metric tonnes of methane each year.This estimate was recently published in a peer-reviewed journal by Ivan Lima and colleagues from Brazil's National